From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
"linux-mips@linux-mips.org" <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel crash in 2.6.32.6 / bcm1480 with 16k page size
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:12:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1265058737.5825.55.camel@groeck-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100201204912.GC17381@linux-mips.org>
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 15:49 -0500, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 12:21:17PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
> > > Write a value with all bits set to c0_entryhi, then read it back again.
> > > The set bits in the VPN2 bitfield will indicate the size of the virtual
> > > address range supported. The MIPS64 documentation also calls this value
> > > SEGBITS. The nice thing about this probe is that it is supported for
> > > all 64-bit MIPS processors except the R8000 which has an entirely different
> > > TLB scheme anyway.
> >
> > Are you sure that this doesn't work for the R8000 ? From the user's
> > manual (section 2.1.9, EntryHi) it looks like it should work.
>
> The probe itself will work if it's carefully written not to get fooled by
> difference in bits 12..18 but that's easy) but still the R8000 has a fairly
> different TLB architecture which Linux doesn't support - the machines are
> rare and none of the active developers has one.
>
Looks like my code should work. I'll send out a patch in a couple of
minutes.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-01 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-28 15:55 Kernel crash in 2.6.32.6 / bcm1480 with 16k page size Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 13:24 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-01-29 15:12 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 17:11 ` David Daney
2010-01-29 18:06 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-01-29 18:21 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-30 2:05 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-01-30 21:34 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-31 3:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 18:39 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 18:56 ` David Daney
2010-01-29 19:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 19:28 ` David Daney
2010-01-29 19:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-31 9:10 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-01-31 16:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-02-01 2:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-02-01 14:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-02-01 15:26 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-02-01 23:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-02-01 15:04 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-02-01 20:21 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-02-01 20:49 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-02-01 21:12 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2010-01-29 20:00 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 20:23 ` David Daney
2010-01-29 22:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 18:24 ` Guenter Roeck
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